Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can … - Jean Dubuffet

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Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

Jean Dubuffet

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Farewell, Goodbye, Long, Merely, Travels

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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach. . Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

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Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Believe, Madness, Mean, Passion, Violence

The real function of art is to change mental patterns. . . making new thought possible.

Art, Change, Patterns, Possible, Real

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